Jack Weatherford
Anthropologist and author
Jack Weatherford is an American anthropologist and author best known for Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. He taught at Macalester College for 29 years.
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American Born 1946 in Dovesville, United States
About Jack Weatherford
Jack McIver Weatherford was born in 1946. He earned a doctorate in anthropology from the University of California, San Diego, and worked as a legislative assistant to Senator John Glenn. He then spent 29 years teaching at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, as holder of a distinguished chair in anthropology named for DeWitt Wallace. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World appeared in 2004 and is a New York Times bestseller. Editions of his books exist in over thirty languages. His more recent work centers on the Mongols. In 2022 Mongolia made him the first foreigner to receive its Order of Chinggis Khan. In 2014 Bolivia honored him for his work on the indigenous peoples of the Americas. He now lives in Mongolia, on the Bogd Khan Mountain.